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About Me

Location:
United States, Brooklyn, NY
Current organization:
TED
Current role:
UX Lead
Gender:
Male
I am:
Atheist, Blogger, Concerned citizen, Designer, Global soul, Photographer, Technologist, Web guru
My website links:
aaronweyenberg.com, Twitter
Universities:
Michigan Technological University, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, University of Delaware
TED conferences attended:
TEDGlobal 2013, TED2013, TEDGlobal 2012, TED2012
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I'm passionate about the truth of all things.

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Design, Human Irrationality, The Future

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  • TEDCred score: +50.90 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

  • +7

    A comment on Talk: Reggie Watts disorients you in the most entertaining way

    May 25 2012: "Everything you are is more important to realize the negative space, as music is only the division of space that is the space we are listening to, divided as such, which gives us the information in comparison to something other, that gives us the idea of what the idea that wants to be transmitted wants to be."

    Totally agree.
  • +2

    A comment on Conversation: What's in your tech ecosystem?

    May 24 2012: TED photographer Duncan Davidson also has his tech ecosystem on usesthis.com: http://james.duncan.davidson.usesthis.com/

  • A comment on Talk: Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys?

    Aug 6 2011: William Pollack was on to a lot of these themes over ten years ago when he wrote Real Boys. I encourage those with an interest in this subject to give it a read:

    http://www.amazon.com/Real-Boys-Rescuing-Myths-Boyhood/dp/0805061835

  • A reply on Conversation: What is ONE book you think changed your world view?

    Jul 28 2011: As someone who thinks living for the purpose of serving and loving is independent from Christianity, or religiosity in general, this sounds like a book I should take a look at. I could learn something from its perspective.

  • A comment on Talk: Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations

    Jul 26 2011: I recently watched Mr. West give an hour long talk about this same topic in much more detail (can't find the url for the life of me though). The scalability really is mind blowing.

  • A comment on Conversation: LIVE CHAT with Mike Matas: Monday, May 2nd, 1PM-2:30PM EST *UPDATE: Extended through May 6th*

    May 2 2011: My first impressions of Our Choice are very good. I specifically want to commend you on the UI work here. A deliberate choice to abandon the design skeuomorphs (such as page edges, and page 'turning') seen in other books on touch devices. You've really shown what the next generation of publishing can look like.
  • +2

    A comment on Conversation: Risks are important. But how do you decide which ones are worth taking and when to be more calculative.

    Apr 15 2011: Alan Webber (co-founder of Fast Company) describes it as a mathematical formula: If the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change, then change happens. Seth Godin repackages it this way in his book Poke The Box: When the cost of poking the box (taking a risk) is less than the cost of doing nothing, then you should poke.

    Framing the choice like this can reduce it down to a simple matter of costs and benefits. For some people this may reveal the path.

    Carlos Castaneda offers another take on it. He advises you ask the question of yourself: Does this path have a heart?

    So if both approaches point to the same action, then it's almost certain that it is right for you.

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